Irena Higgins (1951-2014) > Barbara Higgins (2015) > Kew Historical Society (2015)Professional papersCollection > Series > Sub-series (folder) > ItemRetarded children [Folder 2/3] – A day centre for mentally retarded | Mental deficiency services in Australia | Australian Children Ltd [magazine] | Magazines - Mental retardation; The sub-normal children’s welfare association; A career for John; Your Down Syndrome Child; A.D.M.I. | Percy Report – Community Attitude to mental retardation | Changed concepts in recreation for the handicapped (Keith Cathcart) | The management of the intellectually handicapped (Brady) | Changes in community attitude (Cathcart) | The Beattie Smith Lectures | A life table for mongols in Victoria | Notes on the aetiology of mongolism | Mongolism – the modern management | Care and disposal of mongoloid defectives | A survey of mongoloid births in Victoria 1942-1957 | Various articles/talks – Nursing of the intellectually handicapped; Children’s Cottages: Psychologist’s office; Day facilities | Hope for retarded children (Eunice Kennedy Shriver)department of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential servicesdepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential services

Irena Higgins (1951-2014) > Barbara Higgins (2015) > Kew Historical Society (2015)Professional papersCollection > Series > Sub-series (folder) > ItemRetarded children [Folder 3/3] – Normalization and retarded children | A Bill of Rights for the retarded (Hungerford) | Supported services for parents of handicapped children | The child who is different [magazine] | Survey (Victoria, 1966) | Investigation (Stoller) | Community care | Pegasus [magazine/leaflet] | Newsletters: Working Party on services to mentally retarded people and their families | The situation in New York Statedepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential servicesdepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential services

Irena Higgins (1951-2014) > Barbara Higgins (2015) > Kew Historical Society (2015)Professional papersCollection > Series > Sub-series (folder) > ItemFamily – Emotional growth in the first year | The impact of the handicapped child on the family | The family and the mentally retarded child (1981) | The mentally handicapped and their families (1977) | The present-day Australian family (Ashburner, 1956) | The first twenty-four months | The family and the young handicapped child (1977)department of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential servicesdepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential services

Irena Higgins (1951-2014) > Barbara Higgins (2015) > Kew Historical Society (2015)Professional papersCollection > Series > Sub-series (folder) > ItemGeneral social work – Role of the psychiatric social worker | Social work practices | Social work and social action | Meeting of Departmental social workers working in the field of intellectual handicap | Submission for domiciliary services | White House Conference on children and youth (1960) | Talks | Role of the social worker in Institution for intellectually handicapped children (1953) | Conferences | Job description | Social workers and bureaucracy | Community organisation of social planning | Social work school planning in Illinois | Visits of observation – writing reports | Psychotherapeutic drugs – a guide for social workers | Visiting services – social work | General social work items | [AASW + notes (handwritten)]department of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential servicesdepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential services

Irena Higgins (1951-2014) > Barbara Higgins (2015) > Kew Historical Society (2015)Professional papersCollection > Series > Sub-series (folder) > ItemKew Cottages Parents’ Association {Folder 2/2] – Training centre child adoption scheme | KCPA Constitution etc.department of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential servicesdepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential services

Irena Higgins (1951-2014) > Barbara Higgins (2015) > Kew Historical Society (2015)Professional papersCollection > Series > Sub-series (folder) > Item[Half torn pages and single pages – Incomplete writing | Interesting bits and pieces]department of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential servicesdepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential services

Irena Higgins (1951-2014) > Barbara Higgins (2015) > Kew Historical Society (2015)Professional papersCollection > Series > Sub-series (folder) > ItemReports – Mental Hygiene Authority (1953, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1961) | Mental Health Authority (1963, 1965, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1976) | Kew Mental Hospitaldepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential servicesdepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential services

Irena Higgins (1951-2014) > Barbara Higgins (2015) > Kew Historical Society (2015)Professional papersCollection > Series > Sub-series (folder) > ItemKew Cottages – Letter re Kew Cottages Parents’ Association | State rethinks plans for the disabled (Newspaper clipping, 1987)department of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential servicesdepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential services

Irena Higgins (1951-2014) > Barbara Higgins (2015) > Kew Historical Society (2015)Professional papersCollection > Series > Sub-series (folder) > ItemUniversity of Melbourne (Department of Pathology) – Hysteria; The significance of Piaget for child psychiatry | University of Illinois – Psychological development (1966) | Canadian Institute – Experiments in mental hospital organization (1958)department of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential servicesdepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential services

Irena Higgins (1951-2014) > Barbara Higgins (2015) > Kew Historical Society (2015)Professional papersCollection > Series > Sub-series (folder) > ItemMental Health – Training sessions | Occupational therapydepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential servicesdepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential services

Irena Higgins (1951-2014) > Barbara Higgins (2015) > Kew Historical Society (2015)Professional papersCollection > Series > Sub-series (folder) > ItemMental Health – Psychosis | Schizophrenia and childhood | Testing (and telling people results) | International classification of mental disorders | State schools for the mentally retardeddepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential servicesdepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential services

Irena Higgins (1951-2014) > Barbara Higgins (2015) > Kew Historical Society (2015)Professional papersCollection > Series > Sub-series (folder) > ItemMental Health – Disfunctional parenting | Relatives | Psychosis in parenting | Infantile autism | Serious mental illness in children | The psychotic child | Schizophrenic syndrome in childhooddepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential servicesdepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential services

Irena Higgins (1951-2014) > Barbara Higgins (2015) > Kew Historical Society (2015)Professional papersCollection > Series > Sub-series (folder) > ItemMental Health - [includes Ethnic Community Council] – Migrants and mental healthdepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential servicesdepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential services

Irena Higgins (1951-2014) > Barbara Higgins (2015) > Kew Historical Society (2015)Professional papersCollection > Series > Sub-series (folder) > ItemMental Health – Social workers: functions | Psychologists | Psychiatric treatment team | Nurse-patient relationships | Student nurse in a mental hospital | Role change and adjustment in mental hospitals | Social work in a psychiatric settingdepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential servicesdepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential services

Irena Higgins (1951-2014) > Barbara Higgins (2015) > Kew Historical Society (2015)Professional papersCollection > Series > Sub-series (folder) > ItemMental Health – Dementia | Carnsworth – Garoopna | Mental health problems with ageingdepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential servicesdepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential services

Irena Higgins (1951-2014) > Barbara Higgins (2015) > Kew Historical Society (2015)Professional papersCollection > Series > Sub-series (folder) > ItemVolunteering – Article by a volunteer | Blind | Kew Cottages-Janefield | Conference (1979) | AASW Conference | Mental health – Intellectual disability | Geelong | Training programs | Kew Cottages-Janefield-Sunbury | Visiting services auxiliaries | lecture by Dr Brady | Discussion document from University of Melbourne department of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential servicesdepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential services

Irena Higgins (1951-2014) > Barbara Higgins (2015) > Kew Historical Society (2015)Professional papersCollection > Series > Sub-series (folder) > ItemLetters – [often including names and addresses] – Letters from volunteers | Letters from children at Kew Cottages | Letters to and from social worker (Irena Higgins) re work issuesdepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential servicesdepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential services

Irena Higgins (1951-2014) > Barbara Higgins (2015) > Kew Historical Society (2015)Professional papersCollection > Series > Sub-series (folder) > ItemKew Cottages: Introduction | Mental Retardation in Victoria: an historical perspective (1963) | Chronology of Kew Cottages | Kew Cottages Children's Training Centre | Work Evaluation Sheet for training purposes | History of Kew Cottages 1871-1986 | Kew Children's Cottages [booklet] | Social Work Department [including history of Children's Cottages] | Organising Playground Activities [letters] | Map of Kew Cottages | Role of the Social Worker [notes] | Notes for Student Groups (1968) [incl. reel-to-reel inside] | Annual Report for 1967 | Play Centre [letter] | Writing re Training of Children | Admission Procedure | 'Residential Care of the Retarded" (Seminar 1974) | Report on the Children's Cottages (1979) | Kew Cottages 1887-1987 Centenary Xmas Cardsdepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential servicesdepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential services

Irena Higgins (1951-2014) > Barbara Higgins (2015) > Kew Historical Society (2015)Professional papersCollection > Series > Sub-series (folder) > ItemSundry items: Sexuality and the law in Australia (People with an intellectual disability) | About your child who is Mongoloid (PH) | A study of Mongoloid Children (IH & PH) | A study of children with Mongolism need in the home compared to those reared away from the home | The intellectually handicapped child | Social history proforma | Intellectually handicapped children - education & training | Community Services and unmet community needs - a well rounded program for the retarded | Australia Citizen Ltd (magazine re mental retardation) | Aspects of rehabilitation 1964 (occupational therapy) | Need for a special unit for the assessment and treatment of intellectually disabled | Adolescents with social and or psychiatric problems | Training and recreational (activities of residents at Strathmont Centre) | The need of additional community facilities for intellectually handicapped children | Report - 1966? | The handicap of cerebral palsy.department of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential servicesdepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential services

Irena Higgins (1951-2014) > Barbara Higgins (2015) > Kew Historical Society (2015)Professional papersCollection > Series > Sub-series (folder) > ItemWaiting Lists - Correspondence, referrals, reports at Cottages and Sunbury | Letter to Dr Brady | Letter from Dr Dax to Irena Higgins | Referrals | Waiting lists | Letter re centre in Colac | Interim Report on the Analysis of the waiting list for residential training centres of the Victorian Mental Health Authority | Some action taken | Sunbury waiting lists.department of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential servicesdepartment of health (vic.), mental hygiene authority (vic.), mental health authority (vic.), health commission of victoria, community services victoria, department of health and community services, department of human services, kew cottages, kew children’s cottages, kew training centre, kew residential services

Scans made at photographer in Main Street and Digitally Combined. Gold CD with writing Stawell from Big Hill 1866stawell, gold mining

On reverse: "Faulkner, John ID-198421030"burnley college of horticulture, burnley students

A file previously held in the collection of the Supreme Court of Victoria and now in Public Record Office Victoria contains records of the annulment of the marriage of Florence Cox in 1919. As the earliest known record of a person with intersex variations in Victorian history, Cox’s story – and this record – are of unique historical significance to the LGBTIQ+ history of the State. Florence Cox (1887–1950) had a middle-class upbringing in Melbourne. In 1914 she travelled to Bengal to marry her fiancé Frank Paice and to join him in his missionary work for the Baptist church. The couple returned to Melbourne in 1918 and the following year the Supreme Court of Victoria, at Paice’s request, annulled their marriage. The Supreme Court file reveals that Paice declared he had been unable to consummate the marriage, due to ‘a malformation frigidity or other defect of the parts of generation’ of his wife. Both Paice and Cox were subject to medical examination, which established that Cox had what is recognised today as the intersex condition complete androgen insensitivity syndrome. The court determined that marital intercourse, as it was understood at the time, was impossible for Paice and Cox, and granted the request for an annulment. Paice remarried, fathered children and led a successful professional and civic life, serving a period as Mayor of Nunawading, in the middle- class eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Cox’s life was very different. It is unlikely that anyone in her life would have known what had prompted the end of the marriage, but gossip would certainly have focussed on her part in it. She never remarried and, although she remained connected to her family, her story was rarely discussed. Cox was admitted to Mont Park Mental Hospital in Melbourne’s northern suburbs in 1945, where she died five years later. The Supreme Court file preserves one of the most detailed medical descriptions of a person with intersex variations from that period. It is particularly striking that following the court case, the file was closed ‘forever’. This indicates how seriously the court took the case, and its determination to protect Cox and Paice from public scrutiny. It speaks loudly to the thinking of the time on a matter that was rarely, if ever, raised in public. In 1997, Cox’s great-nephew Ian Richardson set out to investigate the secrecy surrounding his great-aunt Florrie. Following a relentless, two-year campaign by Richardson and other descendants of Cox and Paice, the Supreme Court file was finally opened to the public. Richardson’s book, God’s Triangle, recounts his quest and brings Cox’s story out of the archives and into the light. Quoted from "A History of LGBTIQ+ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects" by Graham Willett, Angela Bailey, Timothy W. Jones and Sarah Rood.

In October 1901, Mr B. Cleal wrote to the Chief Commissioner of Police complaining about the large number of effeminate young men using ‘various conveniences’ for ‘an evil of the most terrible description’. Mr Cleal’s letter is part of a remarkable collection of documents held by Public Record Office Victoria that are valuable to LGBTIQ+ history and heritage in providing unparalleled insight into where and how beats operated in and around the city at that time. By ‘conveniences’ Cleal meant public toilets, and he listed the busiest of them: the corner of Rathdowne and Victoria streets; Lansdowne Street, East Melbourne; under the viaduct opposite the Customs House in Flinders Street; at the rear of the old City Court in Little Collins Street; and under the viaduct at the foot of King Street. Cleal described in detail how these beats worked: ‘One cannot enter but two or three of the above fellows rush in and on pretence of using same will pass some disgusting remark concerning one’s person etc’. The Chief Commissioner despatched one of his officers, Sergeant Canty, to investigate. Canty’s report provides further detail and description of who he encountered at the public toilets. He reported that men ‘known by the term “Pufters” [sic], are generally well dressed, sober, quiet in their manner and some of them very well connected’. Canty further noted about these men: 'it is often very difficult for the police to catch them offending, and if they do at any time make filthy or indecent overtures to any man, they believe him to be similarly inclined, but should they make a mistake the man insulted never thinks of giving any of them in charge [complaining to the police], but sometimes gives the offender a well-deserved blow or kick instead, of which the recipient never complains.' Sergeant Canty admitted that the problem had existed for some time. But, he added, ‘I don’t think the evil complained of is as great as said in attached [Cleal’s letter]’. In reviewing the file, Canty’s supervisor noted that Cleal, ‘appears to have given these resorts considerable attention’. Much of the evidence for same-sex activity in Melbourne in the early twentieth century comes from court cases and sensationalist news reports. With their eyewitness accounts of the use of local beats, these documents in the collection of Public Record Office Victoria provide a more detailed, understated account, making them some of the more unusual and historically significant records in Melbourne’s queer history. Quoted from "A History of LGBTIQ+ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects" by Graham Willett, Angela Bailey, Timothy W. Jones and Sarah Rood.

David Gordon Collection. Black plastic 'pouch' folder. Contains 100-200 A3 pages.

David Gordon Collection. Red plastic 'pouch' folder. Contains 100-200 A3 pages.

David Gordon Collection. Blue plastic 'pouch' folder. Contains 100-200 A3 pages. Label indicates 'Excellent Poseidon Gold Rush References'.